tv Documentary RT September 23, 2019 7:30am-8:01am EDT
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within a decade my country was ruined. it lost a quarter of its manufacturing. a 1000000 people emigrated and public debt kept rising. in 2015 a government claiming to be a left wing promise to put an end to. go over it agreed measures that tie the country up until 2060 and started mass privatization. voters on the lift became depressed because it had succeeded with what the right hadn't. the right was depressed because they knew they'd lost their is on death row. in this country of mass depression however there was one word that awakens the political fervor of the. venezuela.
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this type of. thing i love to see 40 kids we see just give up able to see if it is would send them off the easy. on another human as well again not good not though. when a european country went through a crisis why were its politicians worried about toilet paper in latin america. i flew to caracas to find out.
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during the 11 hour flight i read all sorts of articles warning me that caracas is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. if i wasn't murdered as soon as i got off the plane i'd be kidnapped. or die of hunger or disease. will rot in prison. venezuela's capital is indeed amongst the most dangerous cities but so are dozens of cities in mexico brazil low colombia. however the people there do have fun like we do they exercise much like us. children eat ice cream and some women carry refrigerators for some reason.
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surprisingly nobody trying to kill kidnap or imprison me when i arrived. during those 1st few hours i sold venezuela had fallen victim to the biggest propaganda plot of the 21st century. and money can only be coming out because i wanted to see life in the barrios the slums of caracas gatecrash which winnings i am i wanted to be to young people assists and workers see what they do for fun. what they eat how they vote what newspapers they read their favorite hobbies.
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until we got hit by a taxi and we were left in the middle of the street. the police who we hadn't called arrived within minutes. the ambulance that we did call never appeared. so i went off to explore all venezuela's public health care system . and found a doctor right away and most of the public hospitals i visited were more than decent. in some clinics medical care was offered for free by cuban doctors who were considered some of the best in latin america. however most hospitals lacked one essential element. patients.
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as to what our medicines there's no point in going. spare parts for the x. ray machines were missing to. find those i had to go to a private hospital. and i stumbled on the 1st proof that socialism had failed in venezuela. as one of venezuela's most eminent economists she's never hidden her support for the bolivarian revolution of chavez. maybe.
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there is no humanitarian crisis in venezuela looming humanitarian crisis. is the. crisis. and crisis. crises the country's economic crisis has turned into a humanitarian one. everyone said venezuela was going through a humanitarian crisis. and to prove it they went to geneva to meet former u.n. independent expert. desirous. he just returned from caracas. people also seem to have a problem with the humanitarian crisis. that is
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a term of art. said technique was. you used the term humanitarian crisis. a pretext to. humanitarian intervention. this was the argument made in libya. and at the same time regime change and overthrow the american military. with food for everybody is that it correct but the humanitarian aid would have to be secured by guys with guns. there are certain items that are missing. because production. trade distribution is entirely in private hands it is not government directed so if you
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have a considerable portion of the. business position. that does not want to cooperate with the government you are going to have a scar city and you're going to have delays and distribution that cetera et cetera so on. up the side of the. mainland. according to the central bank of venezuela products were missing before the constitutional referendum and regional elections of 2007.
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before the presidential election of 2012 and off to chavez's death that again led to elections. american sanctions will soon be added to this artificial scarcity making the situation even worse. brought director of the c.p.r. in washington followed. all economic development he believes that america's sanctions are killing people in venezuela. when obama 1st imposed these sanctions on individuals because they violate this woman in international conventions he had to declare that venezuela poses an extraordinary and unusual threat to the security of the united states which is of
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course ridiculous and so this is a very aggressive thing trumpet taking a big step further and really did make it nearly impossible for the venezuelan economy recover temperamental that it will kill female ca i don't know he need them from being a woman to have some if you see a. b. and he says sally quinn with me coming to hide me but i limp out of the book at all lived all the facets see on the silliest had their way they claimed. it to be less from the 2nd life and i said in that message that in super meant to conduct album. they're not interested in knowing why there is a problem so just to be sure why there are certain medicines are not available they don't tell you for instance that although venezuela has the money to buy
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medicines and tries to buy these medicines often enough the countries either refuse to deal with venezuela or do not deliver. we had in the month of november the crisis. in the province. and. they couldn't get the malaria medicine from colombia they had to fly it in from india. so matter of fact. venezuela has been flying in from god knows how many countries to india and china etc there is a problem of course the deal insulin but that is because of the boycott i mean put the blame where the blame belongs. how can we condemn the government of venezuela. when we ourselves are
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causing this car city. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters in florida no mother daughter is buried in a cemetery it really messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pin this on than him and what happens in court he be. shot after shot as far as i feel. we don't know she'll share this truth on. the end of this trial
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mom. private owners holding products in times of political unrest american sanctions the queues for foods and medicines. this i've seen before. in november 970 socialist salvador and then they became chile's president. a historic day for latin america. for the white house it was a mistake by the american ambassador in santiago edward gorey.
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thank god that he was he was going to. be just a. main problem. but i only was elected i said that it was a grave and very serious defeat for the united states. we knew that although i would act in what appeared to be a legal and constitutional manner it would be designed as a class warfare to eliminate the middle class opposition the bourgeois it would be a class war approach. top secret sensitive eyes only. nixon already in september called in henry kissinger to tell him that
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it would not be tolerated that in latin america an alternative economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make the chilean economy scream. nixon gives orders that they make the chilean economy scream and cia director richard helms writes it down. it will be hinted at. in order to become a lasting. but i'm able to see mentally has to see him to know it's the end all be and in your neck in seeing him bad well planned on upset
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what i mean. in venezuela's case the media attacks will be based on a well used recipe. everyone has to be convinced the. dictator is even when they held elections. in the 2 decades of the revolution. at least 25 elections were held and accredited by independent experts like the. over 92 elections that we men are monitored i would say that the election process in voters' where is the best in the world. where all the electoral process is legal and democratic.
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and 2015 party loses the parliamentary election and the right wing opposition wins in the national assembly. to believe the country is paralyzed as m.p.'s hinder legislative work and rejects supremes court rulings. responds with a football dribble will lose. its. instead of waiting for the hand of god as his friend would advise changes field in the middle of the game. of the holds a referendum on the formation of a constitutional assembly that would remove the powers of the national assembly controlled by his opponents find. a constitutional move absolutely. the opposition had twice considered using the
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same procedure to remove chavez from office in 2007. in 2016. before that. was a decision ethical. i may not be qualified to say. in my country as well as an entirely the banker was appointed prime minister. the referendum was ignored. in europe we cancelled a total of 5 referendums because the citizens hadn't voted as the e.u. wanted them to. was those decisions constitutional maybe they were but also ethical and democratic . in venezuela after the 2015
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crisis the part of the right wing opposition started boycotting elections. they asked the un not to send experts who could determine whether fraud had been attempted. democracy in venezuela goes into turmoil this is the government solely responsible or is it also the ghost of the 2002 coup. several coup instigators will never go to prison and will form the hard core of the right wing opposition. it's interesting that. many of the opposition politicians today
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in venezuela were involved in some way or another in the coup d'etat of april. 2002. some of those politicians will continue to receive funding from american organizations like the ne d. . that send milly. ends of congress dole is to venezuela. when the political crisis hit the streets many politicians exploited public frustration and transformed caracas into a battlefield. thoughts
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of the opposition resorted to extreme violence. he had to get off point yet of act the state mechanism responded cruelly and indiscriminately dozens were killed on both sides and many ended up in prison. when independent un expert alfred desireless visited caracas. he persuaded the government to release 80 prisoners are. just he insists though that some should be in prison and should be considered political prisoners. on the subject of political prisoners he said we should look at europe as well.
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they are 4 persons. politicians who are. in jail. now these 4. politicians are clearly political prisoners. whereas in venezuela many of the detainees were detained because acts of violence. they were. detained because they were just expressing their. desire to be independent. to be sure that they're all political prisoners in spain i went to barcelona to
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visit a fellow journalist. public t.v. car let's put outs. he explained that even if the political prisoners he couldn't say so. at least not on. the. entity called. who said what kinds of words we can use when we speak about people that are in prison. just said we cannot use. the terms political prisoners for example.
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because i honestly couldn't believe that in a european country a judge could decide what words a journalist could use. i stayed to watch the broadcast and i heard a breaking story. but i'm not going to. come out of the feel about. the. and she stayed by the. bush. as jody sanchez was not allowed to speak to journalists i left the studio and went to meet his wife.
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in a list that oh it's by no need of quite fair say. you know and if he had a k. a yes or no from christmas break of course bedo seen. that lady seem ok or has that impression unfortunately they are. a recent attack on saudi energy installations as red faced many in washington and the kingdom we will tell you why also uncle joe's travails in ukraine a story beginning to be revealed for a very long time. when the old maid gives manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round to listen to the one percent. of the time doing
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brushes being investigated over claims they gave manipulated data to the world anti-doping watchdog casting doubt over its participation in the summer olympics next year the russian side says it's fully complied with all regulations. plus the u.k. says there's a high degree of probability iran was behind the attack on oil facilities in saudi arabia as tehran releases a british tanker sees 2 months ago. and us democrats say they may again try to impeach president donald trump for alleged collusion with another foreign power but seem less concerned by accusations of corruption again.
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